"By the time we reached out to Mark Cuban, we had already built a substantial
culture for our company and a solid following with multiple
opportunities presented to leverage out online platforms and
brand for merchandising, licensing, books, posters, and a TV
show," he added.

Khraibut moved from Morocco as a child to
Eastbourne, U.K. But he spent most of his childhood in Canada,
which is where Brotips is now headquartered.

While the 17-year-old certainly knows how to hustle,
his entrepreneurial streak began at age 12.

"I had begun developing a mindset of saving money and seeing
small returns off of interest from banks, loans to brothers and
my friends. At that same age, I used to break info and infiltrate
online games by hacking into many accounts just for the sake of
boredom, helping my brothers make e-money
lol," Khraibut wrote to us.

At 13, Khrairbut saw a demand for g-shocks, a
brand of watches. "I made deals with suppliers in Asia and
brought back watches at extremely cheap rates and had sold them
across the city for ridiculous margins," he said.

He wasn't the "good" kid at school. He would hack into high
school networks.

"At around that age, I'd be running in between classes and
during my 'bathroom breaks' to the library to trade my penny
stocks and do my e-trades in the schools library," he
said.

Suspension became a part of his daily life, which
eventually made him drop out. But this gave him more
time to manage his stock portfolio.

"I basically lived on the SEC EDGAR database which is a database by the
Security and Exchange Commission that keeps record of all public
company filings. They helped me understand my investments and
seek transparency in companies. 8-K filings are a type of filings
that I began to practically breathe," he added.

"It just happened to be that Brotips took off during this time
and we realized we were onto something," Khrairbut said.

Now, he's focused on Brotips, where he wants to build viral
brands.

And he seems to live by brotip #1609: "No matter how dirty
your past is, your future is spotless."

"We take common sense, which isn't so common, and package it in a
pretty way," he said. "I'm currently a dropout - what happens in
the future, not too sure. But I do know that my mind and hustle
is with building brands and businesses and that's what I want to
do forever."